What's the longest internet argument you have had?
What's the longest internet argument you have had?
What was it about and what made you argue for so long? Did you win, did it conclude in anyway?
I've never seen anyone win an argument. What would that even look like? What's the goal?
Let's argue right now and in 10 years we'll come back here to settle it
Not sure. Anyone want to start some shit so we can find out?
hey fuck you pal
Yeah less goo.
Ok.
Conspiracy theory:
Autism isn't real, it is a conspiracy to pathologise otherwise normal human behaviour, to sell vast amounts of pharmaceutical products. It's targeted at kids, because they are less articulate and can't effectively argue that there is nothing wrong with them. The really insidious part is that after a while the kids believe it.
Had a guy that used to find me on reddit and respond to everything I said. It was innocent and funny because it was literally just him talking shit out the prequel star wars to me. Not really an argument I guess. He did it for like 3 years. Stopped doing it about 8 years ago. Wonder what happened to that guy.
People should stop making these sort of posts
Don't know, honestly, but what I do know is that if an argument on the internet lasts more than a couple replies neither party is "winning" in the end, if winning means convincing the other party.
I think the point of these hopeless internet arguments mainly becomes to convince the third parties who read them.
Yep, that's why I stick with some arguments, but realizing when there's nothing to be gained is important as well.
I'm still having an argument with a particular Peter Sinclair (aka synclap) about the relative merits of the Atari ST vs his App Mac Classic that began circa 1990.
The ST had the Spectre GCR so it could clearly do everything a Mac could and more, plus it was cheaper.
I had a multi-week long argument with someone on Reddit who was convinced that racism is irrelevant and/or doesn't exist because it's a distraction from class warfare or something.
I argued that yes, the rich are screwing us over, but racism still exists and is bad and you shouldn't be racist.
They made responses that were at least 3x as long as mine. They didn't really ever say anything new, except to say that my points were wrong because class warfare. After they went on a rant in response to my comment to the effect of "it's still not nice to pretend racism doesn't exist", I lost hope with this person.
I started replying to them by mentioning something they said, then followed it up by copy-pasting some of my previous comments to them. I didn't even read their essays. I started pawning off my replies to ChatGPT, and they'd reply every time. Unless they were also using an LLM and telling it to include typos and stuff, it looked like they were still vehemently arguing with me/ChatGPT.
After a few weeks of almost daily replies, I gave a two-sentence reply where I admitted that I wasn't even reading their replies because I thought their opinion was nonsense and the "conversation" had been going nowhere.
I didn't get a reply to that comment.
about how many days are in a week
That the EU was morally better than the US. The posts got longer and longer. I gave up after realizing my latest post would be over 4000 words long.
in geopolitics morality isn't really a thing
A week, the fact that I love the Evangelion manga but don't like the anime(though I do enjoy the movies. I don't know what it is), and I genuinely have no fucking clue why I kept engaging.
I think we just kinda gave up, in the end. There wasn't ever really a point, it wasn't even a "thing is bad" argument, it was "I just don't really enjoy experiencing thing x way" "here's why you're wrong for that".